After Yang Shaowen spent some time carefully sorting out the company's system, he handed over the specific implementation and consolidation to the department managers below. He himself went to the workshop of the Machinery Department and worked with the craftsmen to develop new textile machinery. Because Yuan Yicheng of Baoshan Woodworking Workshop was more interested, he often came over to study with Yang Shaowen and others. During this time, Lu Tonghai was outside urging various departments to standardize their internal management systems, focusing on solving the problem of cloth being stolen. After returning to Lamma Town, he seemed a little worried. "Shao Wen, shouldn't we also become more positive?" "Why, are we very negative now?" Yang Shao Wen asked curiously. "It can't be said to be negative. Internal management issues are indeed very important, and it is necessary for us to make great efforts in this area. It's just" Lu Tonghai said with some reluctance: "It's just that others are progressing too fast. The current situation of United Cloth Industry The number of OEM households has reached 16,000. It took us nearly half a year to reach the level of just over 10,000. Moreover, not only United Cloth Industry, but also many similar factories have been established in Suzhou, Wuxi and other places. cloth industry company. I'm worried that by the time we lay a solid foundation, a large part of the market in southern Jiangsu has been divided up." Yang Shaowen could see that Lu Tonghai was not dissatisfied with the company's actions, but was being taken advantage of. The drastic changes in the market outside have made me a little confused. "Tong Hai, how is the problem of cloth theft being solved?" "This is really a stubborn problem, and it is not easy to completely eliminate it. In some cases, it is simply the result of Orito's collusion with outside criminals. ¡± Although the company has improved many regulations and strengthened business training for employees, and many criminals have been caught during this period, the problem of stolen goods has not been solved immediately. It is still in a relatively high-incidence stage. In Lu Tonghai's view, this is like a game where the eagle catches the chicken. Yang's Cloth Industry is racking its brains to fill the loopholes in the system, while people outside are trying every possible means to find loopholes in their system. Lu Tonghai lamented: "The retail price of a new piece of homespun cloth is around 5 cents and 6 cents, and you only need to pay 6 cents for stealing a piece of cloth. The benefits are really too great. No wonder it's illegal." Vendors will come in one after another! " "Well, if we don't get rid of this stubborn disease, how can we expand outward with peace of mind!" Yang Shaowen wiped his hands with a rag and picked up a large cattail leaf fan. Shake hard. It was midsummer, and the workshop of the Machinery Department seemed a bit stuffy. "As for others who are making rapid progress, we don't need to pay attention to it. The one who runs the fastest may not necessarily live the longest or the best." Lu Tonghai shook his head and sighed. As before, he is still so confident, calm and calm! I don¡¯t know where Yang Shaowen got this kind of confidence. "By the way, what are the prices in the homespun cloth market now? Can they hold up?" Price is also a focus of Yang Shaowen's recent concern. He asks almost every few days. "Our new homespun cloth still maintains the retail price of 5 cents and 6 cents per piece. Judging from the feedback from the sales department, it seems that it can still be maintained for a while. The retail price of the old homespun cloth has dropped from the original 4 cents to 3 cents. 8 points, but the competitiveness is still limited in the face of new homespun cloth! " Yang Shaowen was a little surprised: "Hand-pulled machines are now being promoted very quickly. With the current scale of United Cloth Industry, the market should respond? " Lu Tonghai Explained: "Zhou Yifei is also a smart man. He consciously increased inventory and controlled shipments to maintain prices. Most of the funds he used for expansion were loans from bank accounts." This can be considered good news. . However, they both also know that as more and more merchants join in the promotion of hand-pulled machines, the number of new homespun cloths has increased significantly, and it is impossible for prices to remain stable. Yuan Yicheng was also at the Machinery Department's workshop today. He was not very interested in the company's management. Yang Shaowen and Lu Tonghai were discussing the company's operations, while he had been studying the machines nearby. "Yicheng, what are you and Shao Wen studying these days? Well, judging from the appearance of this machine, it seems to be a loom." "Well, this is indeed a loom." Yuan Yicheng explained: "This is a machine that was eliminated from the Huasheng Textile Factory in Shanghai. Shao Wen asked someone to buy it. This is a power loom!" Huasheng Textile Factory, the original Shanghai machine weaving layout. In the fifteenth year of Guangxu's reign, the Shanghai machine weaving layout was completed and started, and business was booming. In the 19th year of Guangxu's reign, the weaving layout accidentally caught fire and the entire factory was burned down. Because the weaving business was very profitable, Li Hongzhang rebuilt the Huasheng Textile Factory on the original site the next year. "Okay Shao Wen, after I repaired it, this loom can be used as long as it is connected to the power!" Yuan Yicheng was full of confidence and had a sense of accomplishment: "After knowing the principle, it is not difficult to repair it. These government-run factories It's such a waste, it can be scrapped so easily.got a machine. " Lu Tonghai asked: "Shao Wen, are we also planning to open a machine weaving factory? " "That's not true! Yang Shaowen shook his head and denied it. A machine weaving factory at least needs a power source. The current industrial base in Lamma Town and even Wujin County is obviously unrealistic. Yang's Cloth Industry currently does not have the ability to build its own power factory. His The plan is to use the current power loom as a reference to transform it into a human-driven loom. The current entire process of machine weaving is roughly divided into winding, warping, sizing, drawing, weft rolling, and weaving. Among them, winding is to unwind, remove impurities, and lengthen the bobbin into a bobbin; warping is to arrange and wind a specified number of yarns in parallel into a warp beam of a specified length; and weft winding. It is to unwind the bobbin into a weft bobbin; sizing is to combine, sizing, drying and winding the warp yarns on a specified number of warp beams to form a sizing beam; drawing in is to separate the sizing yarns on the sizing beam one by one The warp drop pieces, healds and reeds are inserted according to the fabric structure to make a weaving beam; weaving is to interweave the warp yarns on the weaving beam and the weft yarns drawn out from the shuttle cavity or the weft insertion mechanism according to the fabric structure on the loom. Fabric; finishing is to fold the cloth shaft (commonly known as stick cloth) dropped by the loom into pieces and organize it into packages. The current power loom can already complete shedding, weft insertion and beating under the drive of external power. A series of weaving operations such as weft have made many improvements compared to the current hand-drawn machines. Generally, the machines can be roughly divided into three parts: power machine, transmission machine and working machine. The power machine part is designed to be driven by manual pedals, which converts the up and down motion generated by the pedals into rotational motion through the iron wheel, thereby driving the working machine part. On the other hand, Yang Shaowen also had cost-saving considerations. Among the machines, those that can be replaced with wood should be replaced with wood as much as possible, and only iron parts should be retained if it is not possible. The hand-loom designed in this way is driven by a large iron wheel. Yang Shaowen called it an iron wheel machine. .